DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia-born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Women of Abstract Expressionism” is a major event for the Denver Art Museum: A single exhibit that attempts to influence the way we think about art history ...
When German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared in 1882 that “Gott ist tot” — God is dead — he could not have known that he was codifying a social and cultural transformation that a generation ...
Rita Blitt, “Seeking Truth” (1989), ink on paper (Mulvane Art Museum, Rita Blitt Legacy Collection, 2016.0432) Women of Abstract Expressionism, an exhibition of paintings and drawings curated from the ...
The opening of the Clyfford Still Museum last month has prompted a resurgence of interest in early abstraction in Colorado, from the 1940s to the 1970s. In the beginning, Still was way ahead of even ...
Tytus Czyżewski, Akt z kotem (Nude with a Cat), 1920, oil on canvas, 76 x 96 cm, from the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, photo: NMW Works by young artists shown at the above mentioned ...
That the Museum of Modern Art in New York practically owns—in a very literal sense—the great American art movement, Abstract Expressionism, should be a surprise to no one. After all, the institution ...